On 09/22/2015 01:39 PM, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
Hello,
at WineConf we had a fairly uncontroversial discussion about the Wine Stable release process. As the current process of feature based Wine releases isn't working(*) following changes were agreed upon.
Release Process Changes
Switch to time based releases.
Major releases once a year in autumn/fall. Code freeze starts around mid/end of September.
Michael Stefaniuc will be the stable maintainer starting with 1.8.x. Other people are more than welcome to help out with Wine Stable. I'll document stuff and send out a request for help during the code freeze.
The stable release will be supported in bugzilla.
This changes take effect immediately. You can expect Alexandre to announce a code freeze in the next couple of weeks.
We will revisit this changes should the need arise, e.g. reduce the time between two major stable releases.
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Awesome, thank you all and especially thank you Michael!
This sounds generally good and looks like fitting perfectly for Debian, which currently freezes in November/December.
Greets jre